Candy Crush Soda is the game that i play on both my Windows 10 laptop and on my Android 10

phone. On the laptop I'm on level 436 while I'm currently playing number level 853 on my
phone. Well I love to swipe and match the candies quite a lot. This game really gave me
something to do to take my mind off stressful stuff during COVID-19 lockdowns. Matching
three candies or more gives you points adding up to the overall task or achievement which you
must do in line with the number of moves each level permits. Your level of success is measured
by the number of stars - one star is the least and three the highest. As you play the game you will
be receiving verbal accolades, for example, "great" "delicious" "wonderful" to reward the skill
displayed in crushing the candies. At face value, it might appear as if the game is for children
given its simplicity and colourfulness. However, this is quite an engaging game which carries
many of practical life concepts. Like in real life, you play the game moving from simple to
complex levels, each level having an incremental effect on your skills for far advanced levels.
The game’s rewarding system is quite a lesson about life itself, you get reward for the level of
skill and effort exerted. If you fail to complete a task, you can only be given five lives for retrials
on each level failure of which you are stopped from playing the game until you refill your lives.
In life, you cannot get a million chances to accomplish one task so it seems but with Candy
Crush Soda, you are transported into a world of possibilities, away from frustrations of life. You
are transported to a world where you can get five chances to try again and again until you
exhaust your lives. The punishment can be paid for - you can refill lives online using your credit
card. You can also buy lives using the gold bars you would have accrued in previous feats.
Thirdly, you can ask for lives from your online or Facebook friends who can donate lives to you
instantly and you can play again. Candyland is a global village where when you play, you're not
alone - you stay connected to the friends you know or even new ones in all parts of the world.

Though it is a ‘delicious’ game which stimulates brain activity through the satisfaction derived
from the wins, The Guardian newspaper revealed, "These accomplishments are experienced as
mini rewards in our brains, releasing the neurochemical dopamine and tapping into the same
neuro-circuitry involved in addiction, reinforcing our actions." Candy Crush is quite addictive
such that a group of researchers from Harvard and the University of British Columbia concluded
that the game has hedonic adaptation effect which implies that you cannot be satiated when you
start playing. Personally, I do not think I have an addiction to this game but I see myself as not in
control when I play it. My job is simply to swipe but the candies which trickle in are not my
choice. So winning feels like a matter of chance or luck so to speak. Though it is easy to learn,
the game cannot be mastered such that you got to fork out some dollars in order to buy boosters
and lives.